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Saturday, 6 March 2021

North Yorkshire dialect – & the White Horse of Kilburn

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As I said in On the Sea Cliffs of Cleveland , my last blogpost, one of William Stott Banks' great interests was Yorkshire dialect.   He ...
Saturday, 6 February 2021

On the Sea Cliffs of Cleveland: 1864

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A more appreciative and detailed account of the walk taken by J.G. in 1866 (see last blogpost) is that described by William Stott Banks in O...
Saturday, 9 January 2021

Walk the Cleveland Way – in 1866

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An ideal trip back in time for anyone planning to walk the Cleveland Way when lockdown is over, or for people who know it well.  Actually, t...
Thursday, 24 December 2020

The Vassal Singers in Nunthorpe before the First World War

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This was written many years ago by Kay Hill (1905-2005).  I think it must have appeared in some publication but I don't know which.  She...
Saturday, 12 December 2020

Runswick: a tale of landslips – and the cholera of 1866

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The cliffside village of Runswick Bay  [Photograph by mattbuck, reproduced under  Creative Commons licence ]   Runswick (the 'w' in ...
Saturday, 14 November 2020

Cholera: glimpses of the pandemics of the 19th century

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In the 19th century, the usual yearly epidemics of frequently fatal infectious diseases in Britain were eclipsed by successive waves of a fr...
Saturday, 7 November 2020

George Bewick in Hutton Rudby

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 If anybody has any information on the origins of the George Bewick who settled in Hutton Rudby in the mid-18th century, do let me know.   I...